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5years

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Cape Town - South Africa

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Not Disclosed

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1 Vacancy

Job Description

Production Environment Management

  • Maintain and monitor AWS and Teraco environments to ensure 99.9% uptime.
  • Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
  • Optimize scalability security and performance of AWS services (EC2 RDS ECS Lambda etc.).
  • Utilize monitoring tools like AWS CloudWatch Datadog or Grafana for system visibility and alerting.


Patching and Upgrading

  • Perform regular patching and upgrades based on the approved patch policy.
  • Plan and execute maintenance windows with minimal service disruption.
  • Address vulnerabilities using scan results (e.g. Rapid7) to ensure environment compliance.


CI/CD Pipeline Management

  • Deploy approved GitLab pipelines into production based on JSM change requests.
  • Collaborate with Development and QA teams for seamless code deployment.
  • Optimize pipelines for performance security and reliability.


Incident Response and Monitoring

  • Proactively detect and respond to system issues.
  • Troubleshoot incidents to reduce downtime and recovery time.
  • Participate in the on-call rotation and perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for production incidents.


Change Management

Review and implement approved changes in collaboration with the change management team.

Maintain clear documentation and communication for all production changes. Automation and Optimization

Automate repetitive DevOps tasks (e.g. deployments patching monitoring).

Optimize AWS resource usage to maintain cost-efficiency without compromising performance. Collaboration and Documentation

Work cross-functionally with Product Owners Developers QA Security and Auditors.

Maintain comprehensive documentation of systems changes and incident resolutions.




Requirements

Education & Certifications

Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science Information Technology or related field or equivalent work experience.

One or more of the following certifications (current and maintained):

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate

Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate

LPI Linux Essentials

Red Hat Certified System Administrator

Experience

Minimum of 3 years in a DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) role.

Hands-on experience in managing production workloads in AWS.

Proven expertise in Linux server administration.

Experience with GitLab CI/CD or similar tools.



Minimum of 3 years in a DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) role. Hands-on experience in managing production workloads in AWS. Proven expertise in Linux server administration. Experience with GitLab CI/CD or similar tools.

Education

Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field or equivalent work experience. One or more of the following certifications (current and maintained): AWS Certified DevOps Engineer AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate LPI Linux Essentials Red Hat Certified System Administrator

Employment Type

Full Time

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